Jukebox
A sort of sequel to 2000's The Covers Record, Cat Power's Jukebox reaffirms what Chan Marshall has gained during her 21st century musical growth spurt, and what she's lost. Among the artists she tackles: Hank Williams, James Brown, and Billie Holiday.
Jukebox is Chan Marshall's second album of covers, and given all the semi-ridiculous presumptions regarding her emotional stability, like the notion that she's perpetually perched on the lip of a colossal breakdown, it isn't too hard to guess why she might be preternaturally drawn to other people's songs. Still, she's…
A stop-gap or creating something original? Cat Power's latest covers record touches all these bases with her usual sultry style. Andrew Dowdall reviews.
Re-interpreting and creating re-workings that seem to unearth forgotten meanings, is an art-form in itself.
Eight years is a long time in almost any artist's career, but in Cat Power's case, it's an even more sizable gulf, as Chan Marshall's collections of other people's songs reflect.
<p>Bold choices and compelling voices provide the highlights of these two albums for Graeme Thomson</p>
The Chan Marshall you'll hear on Jukebox is drastically different from the one you'll hear on 2000's The Covers Record.